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Marketing Efficiency and Equity: A Case Study of an Area's Cotton Ginning Industry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Stephen Fuller
Affiliation:
Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business at New Mexico State University
Clyde Eastman
Affiliation:
Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business at New Mexico State University
Joe Dewbre
Affiliation:
Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business at New Mexico State University
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Extract

Applied economists are becoming increasingly aware of the need to document the social rates of return to investment in research and to analyze how the benefits and costs brought about by the adoption of a research product are distributed among affected groups. Relatively little empirical work has been done on these interrelated topics. Griliches made an early contribution to the subject of social rates of return in his essay dealing with the hybridization of corn.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1973

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